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Walter Benjamin's Philosophical Thought Presented by Two ...
One of the most potent words in the Benjamin lexicon is the French term flâneur.The flâneur is a “stroller, idler, walker,” a “well-dressed man, strolling leisurely through the Parisian arcades of the nineteenth century—a shopper with no intention to buy, an intellectual parasite of the arcade” (as Benjamin website “The Arcades ...